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IMPERIAL ENGLISH UK INTERMEDIATE COURSE (CEFR B1-B2 / IELTS 4.5-5.5)

22 • Considering the conventions of a Choosing a headline for Inventing headlines Predicting news stories Listening to self-check Adjectives for news Matching news News vocabulary (T1)
newspaper and specific vocabulary a text (T3) from images (T2) from headlines (T2) (T6) reports (T3) vocabulary to
News and definitions (T1)
Media • Creating newspaper headlines for a Reading for specific Expanding on notes Summarising a tabloid Listening for specific
number of stories information (T3) from a text (T4) news story (T5) information (T6) Applying vocabulary to

(2 hr) • Summarising news stories during images (T1)
informal conversations Reading for gist (T4) Note-making (T5)

• Writing a newspaper article
Writing and editing a
• Working as an editor to correct newspaper article (T7)
errors in classmates’ writing

23 • Discussing Internet usage and Reading to check Note-making (T2) Asking and answering Listening for spoken Verb tenses (T4) Internet and IT (T4) Internet symbols (T5)

favourite websites predictions (T3) questions with symbols (T5)
The Internet classmates (T1) Describing trends (T4)
• Expanding vocabulary related to
(2 hr) the topic Asking questions to
• Reviewing ways of describing deduce an answer (T2)
trends
• Discussing the pros and cons of the For and against
growth of the Internet discussion (T6)

24 • Discussing pet peeves and reasons Exchanging information Note-making (T4) Discussing and Listening for detail (T3) Present simple, likes Matching vocabulary to Persuasion and
for them in a text (T2) describing pet peeves and dislikes (all) definitions (T2) greeting (T2/5)
Likes and Completing a letter of (T1) Listening to language of
Dislikes • Developing language for Answering questions complaint (T5) complaint and Formal/informal
complaining and persuading from a text (T2) Asking for and giving persuasion (T3) greetings (T5)
(2 hr) • Participating in a performance Writing a letter of information to complete
based on a popular BBC show complaint (T6) a text (T2)
• Writing a letter of complaint to a
company Role-play, chat show
(T4)

25 • Discussing important historical Reading for gist (T7) Writing about past Discussing items and Listening for gist and Used to / didn’t use to Inventions and Used to / didn’t use
inventions habits (T6/8) their uses (T1) specific information for past habits (T4) definitions (T2) to (T4/5)
Science and Answering questions (T3)
Technology • Considering alternative ways to from a text (T7) Ordering ideas (T2)
discuss past states and habits

(2 hr) • Discussing changes in the world Talking about past
through human innovation habits (T5)
• Writing about how life has changed
since childhood

26 • Expanding vocabulary connected Reading about Answering questions Asking and answering Listening for specific Second conditional Currency (T1) Money and numbers
to money and finance hypothetical situations about money (T2) questions (T1) information (T3) (T4/5) (T3)
Money (T4) Money and numbers
• Discussing monetary habits Discussing hypothetical (T3)
(2 hr) • Focusing on the second conditional Answering questions situations with money
tense and its use from a text (T4) (T6)

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